great idea! The filter enables me to view all web pages bookmarked with selcted tags. But can i also tag an object on a page? And then see page links with the objects listed underneath? 🙂 Not today, but maybe in the future?

Imagine a goolge search that lists relevant pages, with a search related cutout (object clip). To make sense of the search, i have to walk through the links. What if my searh produces a page of links, and under each link is the relevant comment? Tha treduces the time it currently takes with Google to wade through the links.

The “relevancy” of a search result page (links) might be resolved by analysis of public comment tags similarly to how Google algorithms analyse page links – but with far more accuracy, relevance and communication of meaning.

Knowledge worker and Web runner comments on a page are in many ways a shortcut to the fabled “Semantic Web”. The idea of a semantic web is that content creators could metatag information objects in ways that search engines could read and organize vast amounts of information better. Meaning, the human understanding of relvant ontology and metadata can be communicated to search engines and document management machines.

Can our Web machines understand the meaning of our information vessels? It seems to me that comment tags and relevancy based searches could shortcut the human to machine “semantic” problem.

I also think that the DotSpots concept of combining Google Search with Wikipedia participation is a breakthrough idea. But it’s an idea that naturally falls into the realm of Diigo. If we can tag our comments, there would seem to be a natural opportunity to then search the objects according to a publicly determined relevancy far outstripping the limitations of Google and the outside the point of interest wikipedia particpation. – post by Gary Edwards

The link to the blog is at the foot of all Diigo pages. – post by Graham Perrin

So what does this mean to businesses? It means the old ways of dictatorial managers overseeing not-to-be-trusted worker bees are over. If, Pink says, you give workers THREE gifts — autonomy, mastery, and purpose — they will work like hell for you (because it’s as much for THEM). In many ways it makes sense. Given the choice, humans will work for less money if a company offers them more leeway, creative outlets, flexibility, challenges with long-term goals, camaraderie, and raison d’être’s (so to speak).

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If, Pink says, you give workers THREE gifts — autonomy, mastery, and purpose — they will work like hell for you (because it’s as much for THEM).

The basic premise of the book is that the world has changed, and that working harder, faster, and cheaper than your colleagues or competitors is no longer a guarantee of success. We need to do more than follow instructions. We need to fight against the notion that we are commodities; cogs working in a factory that can be easily replaced with a cheaper and more efficient component. We live in an increasingly educated and connected world, and being “good enough” is no longer the safe option; there are plenty of people with your skills, many of whom are prepared to work for less. If you are to survive, you must stand apart. You must be a linchpin.

“There used to be two teams in every workplace: management and labor. Now there’s a third team, the linchpins. These people invent, lead (regardless of title), connect others, make things happen, and create order out of chaos. They figure out what to do when there’s no rule book. They delight and challenge their customers and peers. They love their work, pour their best selves into it, and turn each day into a kind of art.” (from the book jacket)

Godin’s view is that as managers, we have the ability (and some might say the responsibility) to develop linchpins among our employees. But more importantly, as employees we have the ability to develop linchpin characteristics within ourselves.